September 30, 2012

A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest
known Bronze Age burial mound Lusehøj may actually derive from Austria, new
findings suggest. The cloth thus tells a surprising story about long-distance
Bronze Age trade connections around 800 BC. The findings have just been
published in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.

2,800 years ago, one of Denmark's richest and most powerful
men died. His body was burned. And the bereaved wrapped his bones in a cloth
made from stinging nettle and put them in a stately bronze container, which
also functioned as urn.

Big news out of Madrid, Spain: French university Team
Rhône-Alpes has won the 2012 European Solar Decathlon with their stunning solar
Canopea House! Leading the Solar Decathlon competition since winning the
Architecture and Operations prizes, this compact home is topped with a 10,7 kW
array of photovoltaic panels that produce enough energy to run all of the
electricity on both floors and charge up a mini electric vehicle at the same
time! The Canopea house was designed for modularity and was specifically engineered
for stacking into 'nanotowers' for higher density housing, addressing the need
for sustainable urban housing in the alpine corridor.

The older we get, the weaker our immune systems tend to
become, leaving us vulnerable to infectious diseases and cancer and eroding our
ability to benefit from vaccination. Now Stanford University School of Medicine
scientists have found that blocking the action of a single protein whose levels
in our immune cells creep steadily upward with age can restore those cells’
response to a vaccine.

This discovery holds important long-term therapeutic
ramifications, said Jorg Goronzy, MD, PhD, professor of rheumatology and
immunology and the senior author of a study published online Sept. 30 in Nature
Medicine. It might someday be possible, he said, to pharmacologically counter
aging’s effects on our immune systems.

Alessandro Pessoli's evocative drawings, paintings, and
sculptures place expressive, often melancholy figures in indeterminate spaces
and dreamlike narratives. Fluidly moving across media and shifting between two-
and three-dimensional forms, Pessoli renders his seemingly restless and
exaggerated characters in a manner that is rich in historical references to
art, cinema, and theater.

Ottoman art reflects the wealth, abundance, and influence of
an empire which spanned seven centuries and, at its height, three continents.
The Sultan’s Garden chronicles how stylized tulips, carnations, hyacinths,
honeysuckles, roses, and rosebuds came to embellish nearly all media produced
by the Ottoman court beginning in the mid-16th century. These instantly recognizable elements became
the brand of the empire, and synonymous with its power. Incredibly, the development of this design
identity can be attributed to a single artist, Kara Memi, working in the royal
arts workshop of Istanbul. The Sultan’s Garden unveils the influence of Ottoman
floral style and traces its continuing impact through the textile arts—some of
the most luxurious and technically complex productions of the empire.

DRIVE THE MODEL S ELECTRIC CAR ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY ON
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Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) today unveiled its highly
anticipated Supercharger network. Constructed in secret, Tesla revealed the
locations of the first six Supercharger stations, which will allow the Model S
to travel long distances with ultra fast charging throughout California, parts
of Nevada and Arizona.

The technology at the heart of the Supercharger was
developed internally and leverages the economies of scale of existing charging
technology already used by the Model S, enabling Tesla to create the
Supercharger device at minimal cost. The electricity used by the Supercharger
comes from a solar carport system provided by SolarCity, which results in
almost zero marginal energy cost after installation. Combining these two
factors, Tesla is able to provide Model S owners1 free long distance travel
indefinitely.

Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now
warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during
medieval times when parts of the northern hemisphere were as hot as, or hotter,
than today, according to a new study in the journal Geology.

“The Medieval Warm Period was not as uniformly warm as we
once thought--we can start calling it the Medieval Period again,” said the
study’s lead author, William D’Andrea, a climate scientist at Columbia
University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “Our record indicates that
recent summer temperatures on Svalbard are greater than even the warmest
periods at that time.”

The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of
red and gold ...

It was 1947 when Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to the
popular song "Autumn Leaves." Sixty-five years ago, Mercer likely
didn't think the reds and golds of fall might someday fade.

But that's what's beginning to happen in U.S. Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic regions.

Autumn colors were different there a century, or even a
half-century, ago, and they will likely continue to change, says ecologist
David Foster, principal investigator at the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Massachusetts.

Today, an open innovation challenge called Mozilla Ignite
announced eight winning ideas for innovative applications that offer a glimpse
of what the Internet's future might look like--and what the lives of Americans
may look like as well.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted
by Mozilla, the challenge called for stellar application, or "app,"
ideas from anywhere in the world that would advance national priorities such as
health care, public safety, clean energy and transportation. This brainstorming
round received more than 300 submissions examined by 38 expert judges, who
awarded the eight winning teams prizes ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.

At the Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz introduced the
production of the SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive (earlier post). The
battery-electric supercar goes on sale in 2013. The price in Germany (incl. 19%
VAT) will be €416,500 (US$535,898). (The new, conventional V8 SLS AMG Roadster
going on sale next month carries a price in Germany, including VAT, of €213,010
(US$274,074).)

Australia today announced it will join the Climate and Clean
Air Coalition - an alliance of over two dozen nations, intergovernmental
organisations, the private sector, and civil society, committed to rapid action
to reduce short-lived but highly potent pollution caused by methane, black
carbon (soot), tropospheric ozone (smog) and hydrofluorocarbons.

"Australia is signing on with other nations, including
the United States, who are supporting action to reduce these pollutants,"
said Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.

Refueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a
costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints and threats to
national security and sailors at sea.

In Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. Navy Military Sea Lift
Command, the primary supplier of fuel and oil to the U.S. Navy fleet, delivered
nearly 600 million gallons of fuel to Navy vessels underway, operating 15 fleet
replenishment oilers around the globe.

From Seawater to CO2

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are
developing a process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas
(H2) from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO2 and H2 into
jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.

September 29, 2012

Modified Lotus Exige reaches speed of 151mph at Elvington
airfield in North Yorkshire

A battery-powered car designed to "smash the boring,
Noddy stereotype of the green car" broke the UK electric land speed record
on Thursday.

The Nemesis, a Lotus Exige modified by utility company
Ecotricity, reached an average speed of 151mph near York today. It was driven
by 21-year-old Nick Ponting, who started racing go-karts at the age of 12, and
first broke the record by hitting 148mph earlier today at Elvington airfield in
North Yorkshire.

The previous record, of 137mph, was set by the grandson of
racing legend Sir Malcolm Campbell, Don Wales, driving a Bluebird Electric in
2000. Wales attempted to break his own record in August 2011 but failed after
the car hit a pothole on a beach in Wales.

Lack of sleep leads to insulin resistance in teens, notes a
new study, Sleep Duration and Insulin Resistance in Healthy Black and White
Adolescents from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). The research was recently published in the journal
Sleep. But increasing the amount of sleep that teenagers get could improve
their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes.

Also, locally in the Sacramento and Davis regional area, the
University of California, Davis studies how the omega 3 fatty acids from fish
oil and flax seed oil can help to control low blood sugar and excess insulin
that happens after a meal in some people.

After 9/11, there were several new forms of terrorist
attacks. Among them, envelopes with white powder were sent to banks, political,
and government buildings within the United States which caused the deaths of
five individuals. The white powder was found to be anthrax, a bacteria called
bacillus anthracis which causes a serious infectious disease. Inhalation of
anthrax spores infects the body through the lungs. Anthrax releases several
toxic substances and an infection of the lungs if left untreated is usually
fatal.

The most crucial factor in identifying anthrax is to
identify the diseases’ protein. This is currently done using antibodies.
However, the production of antibodies is costly and the process is complicated.
In addition, it is easily affected by environmental factors such as humidity
and temperature. This makes it hard to preserve its effectiveness. This is also
the reason why pregnancy test kits, which also use antibodies, are vacuum
packed.

“During the on-road portion of our study, the hybrid vans
demonstrated a 13 to 20 percent higher fuel economy than the conventional
vans,” said NREL Project Engineer Michael Lammert. “During dynamometer testing,
three standard drive cycles were chosen to represent the range of delivery
routes. The hybrids showed a 13 to 36 percent improvement in fuel economy and
up to a 45 percent improvement in ton-miles-per-gallon. This wide range in fuel
economy is largely dependent on drive cycle.”

A method is now available to produce non-aggregating
semiconducting particles in water

Conversion of water into hydrogen is a fundamental reaction
powered by light, but the lack of suitable artificial drivers, or
photocatalysts, for this reaction has hampered its commercial development.
Platinum-decorated semiconductor nanoparticles are expected to fill this gap;
however, production of these tiny particles typically requires high-temperature
metal deposition or ultraviolet irradiation techniques in organic solvents.
When synthesized in water, as a benign alternative, the particles tend to form
clumps during metal deposition.

Computer simulations of a metal–sulfide alloy unlock the
secrets to designing solar-powered catalysts that generate hydrogen fuel from
water

Partnerships can pay off when it comes to converting solar
into chemical energy. By modeling a cadmium sulfide (CdS)–zinc sulfide (ZnS)
alloy with special computational techniques, a Singapore-based research team
has identified the key photocatalytic properties that enable this chemical duo
to ‘split’ water molecules into a fuel, hydrogen gas (H2). The theoretical
study was published by Jianwei Zheng from the A*STAR Institute of High
Performance Computing and his co-workers.

No one could blame Monsanto, one of the biggest purveyors of
GMO food products, for wanting to squash California’s Proposition 37. The law
is primarily focused on forcing food vendors to disclose whether or not any
genetic modification took place to grow and produce the product they’re about
to buy. Because such practices are viewed negatively by a large section of the
public, it could be argued that it’s in Monsanto‘s best interest to fight the
legislation.

The economic and human costs of climate change are already
here according to a new study; significantly contributing to the deaths of
nearly 400,000 people a year and costing upwards of $1.2 trillion a year in
economic costs — that’s 1.6% of the annual global GDP.

Developing countries have so far been bearing the brunt of
the damage, according to the research. The agricultural production systems
there, when damaged by extreme weather, directly cause the deaths of the people
depending on them; from malnutrition, poverty, and associated diseases.

When's the last time you felt really good about something a
corporation has done for the environment?

If you’re like me, it’s probably not recently. Big companies
usually grace Greenpeace’s blog for destroying the environment.

Today though, we can feel good about at least one company's
actions: Google announced that it is purchasing 48 megawatts of clean,
renewable wind power for its data centre in Oklahoma, USA. That’s enough clean
energy to power a small city!

Google’s announcement shows what the most forward-thinking,
successful companies can accomplish when they are serious about powering their
operations with clean energy.

Making decisions about how and where to invest limited
resources is always difficult, especially with a group of diverse stakeholders.
It’s more difficult when, as in the case of infrastructure like bridges, sea
walls, and sewer systems, the effects of the decisions can extend out for
decades, even centuries. And it’s more difficult still when future conditions
are subject to what I discussed in a previous post as “deep uncertainty.”

Deep uncertainty involves two basic conditions. First, the
models we use to anticipate future conditions produce a wide range of scenarios
of equal (or indeterminate) likelihood.

Audi is a company synonymous with diesel performance. Its
efforts at the 24 Hours of Le Mans have repeatedly proven what can be
accomplished with a healthy oil-burner at your command, but until now, buyers
were unable to pick up spots-oriented models with a TDI badge. That's changed
with the debut of the SQ5 TDI at the 2012 Paris Motor Show.

As the first S model with a diesel engine, the crossover
boasts 309 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque. The grunt gets to the
ground via an eight-speed Tiptronic transmission and the company's Quattro
all-wheel-drive system. The combination can hustle the SQ5 to 62 miles per hour
in 5.1 seconds.

It looks like Audi is the latest automaker to equip a car
with technology that makes humans look plain ol' dumb by comparison.

In this case, the German automaker is developing a so-called
"coasting" hybrid, which is a variation of the stop-start feature
being included in an expanding stable of vehicle models. In fact, the system is
similar to what we saw on the Volkswagen Golf Twin Drive in 2008, but Audi uses
a three-cylinder gas-powered TFSI engine instead of the four-cylinder diesel
that was found in the Golf. A version of Twin Drive was developed for the Audi
A3, as well.

The iHEV (Intelligent Hybrid Vehicle) is now being developed
for the Audi A7 sedan, though the automaker hasn't said anything about
timeframe, cost or availability.

Last week, we told you about an disturbing new study that
found long-term damage caused by Monsanto’s Genetically Modified (GMO) corn and
Roundup week-killer.

And despite a firestorm of invective from the agri-business
giant and its allies, it looks like they won’t be able to talk their way out of
this one – France has promised, for the first time, to put GMO crops under a
microscope and seriously look at possible health risks.

As Guardian (UK) environment blogger John Vidal noted,
Monsanto’s corporate flacks and their bought-and-paid for allies trotted out
every epithet imaginable to trash the study, including “biased”, “poorly
performed”, “bogus”, “fraudulent”, “sub-standard”, “sloppy agenda-based
science”, “inadequate” and “unsatisfactory”, and France was outed as “the most
anti-science country in anti-science Europe”. (If those arguments don’t sound
particularly “scientific” to you – there’s a good reason. They’re not. They’re
completely ad hominem -attacking the person, rather than the facts.)

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted
a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium
enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious
nuclear-proliferation risk. The plant, which would be built through a
partnership between General Electric (GE) and Hitachi in Wilmington, North
Carolina, could be used to enrich uranium to make fuel for nuclear reactors
quickly and cheaply using a process that involves a laser.

A rare find of stunningly intact fossils of prehistoric
plankton will allow researchers to study how the tiny marine organisms cope
with rising acidity in the oceans.

Finding such intact specimens of coccolithophores,
micrometre-sized marine plankton encased in discs of calcium carbonate, is a
real coup — searching for fossils of calcified single-celled organisms often
yields only skeletal bits that have fallen to the ocean floor.

By mimicking nature's own sensing mechanisms, bioengineers
at UC Santa Barbara and University of Rome Tor Vergata have designed
inexpensive medical diagnostic tests that take only a few minutes to perform.
Their findings may aid efforts to build point-of-care devices for quick medical
diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), allergies, autoimmune
diseases, and a number of other diseases. The new technology could dramatically
impact world health, according to the research team.

Many white sharks shift from fish to marine mammals as they
mature, but individual sharks show surprising variability in dietary
preferences

White sharks, the largest predatory sharks in the ocean, are
thought of as apex predators that feed primarily on seals and sea lions. But a
new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows
surprising variability in the dietary preferences of individual sharks.

Solar power may be clean and renewable, but solar panels are
inefficient and do not work at night. Could concentrated solar power be the
salty solution?

The University of Arizona College of Engineering will lead a
$5.5 million, 5-year research project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,
to develop more affordable and efficient concentrated solar power systems.

Concentrated solar power, or CSP, is generated by mirrors,
called heliostats, that focus sunlight on a receiver containing a heat transfer
fluid that absorbs the energy, which is then used to produce steam to spin
electric turbines.

Using an innocuous bacterial virus, bioengineers have
created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell. The
system greatly increases the complexity and amount of data that can be
communicated between cells and could lead to greater control of biological
functions within cell communities.

If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous
enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading
houseguest, not a killer. Once inside it makes itself at home, eating your
food, texting indiscriminately. Recently, however, bioengineers at Stanford
have given M13 a bit of a makeover.

Mayo Clinic researchers have found a way to detect and
eliminate potentially troublemaking stem cells to make stem cell therapy safer.
Induced Pluripotent Stem cells, also known as iPS cells, are bioengineered from
adult tissues to have properties of embryonic stem cells, which have the
unlimited capacity to differentiate and grow into any desired types of cells,
such as skin, brain, lung and heart cells. However, during the differentiation
process, some residual pluripotent or embryonic-like cells may remain and cause
them to grow into tumors.

September 28, 2012

You've probably never given much thought to the fact that
picking up your cup of morning coffee presents your brain with a set of complex
decisions. You need to decide how to aim your hand, grasp the handle and raise
the cup to your mouth, all without spilling the contents on your lap.

A new Northwestern University study shows that, not only
does your brain handle such complex decisions for you, it also hides
information from you about how those decisions are made.

Novel, biocompatible nanoparticles glow through more than 3
centimeters of biological tissue, demonstrating the promise of nanotechnology
in biomedical imaging

An international research team has created unique
photoluminescent nanoparticles that shine clearly through more than 3
centimeters of biological tissue -- a depth that makes them a promising tool
for deep-tissue optical bioimaging.

Sometimes even batteries can use a boost of energy,
according to the focus of a Kansas State University graduate student's
research.

Steven Arnold Klankowski, a doctoral candidate in chemistry,
La Crescent, Minn., is working under Jun Li, professor of chemistry, to develop
new materials that could be used in future lithium-ion batteries. The materials
look to improve the energy storage capacity of batteries so that laptops,
cellphones, electric cars and other mobile devices will last longer between
charges.

The current issue of Science Express, the online advance
publication of the journal, features a paper by the Event Horizon telescope
team – a collaboration which includes Perimeter Associate Faculty member Avery
Broderick – that may shed light on the origin of the bright jets given off by some
black holes. In a world first, the team has been able to look at a distant
black hole and resolve the area where its jets are launched from. This is the
first empirical evidence to support the connection between black hole spin and
black hole jets that has been long suspected on theoretical grounds.

Images show how
nickel, which enhances battery capacity, also appears to hinder charging rates

Anyone who owns an electronic device knows that lithium ion
batteries could work better and last longer. Now, scientists examining battery
materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that
impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the
materials charge and discharge. Published last week in Nano Letters, the
research also suggests a way to improve the materials.

Even the most skilled and steady surgeons experience minute,
almost imperceptible hand tremors when performing delicate tasks. Normally,
these tiny motions are inconsequential, but for doctors specializing in
fine-scale surgery, such as operating inside the human eye or repairing
microscopic nerve fibers, freehand tremors can pose a serious risk for
patients.

By harnessing a specialized optical fiber sensor, a new
“smart” surgical tool can compensate for this unwanted movement by making
hundreds of precise position corrections each second – fast enough to keep the
surgeon’s hand on target.

Physicians and environmentalists alike could soon be using a
new class of electronic devices: small, robust and high performance, yet also
biocompatible and capable of dissolving completely in water – or in bodily
fluids.

Researchers at the University of Illinois, in collaboration
with Tufts University and Northwestern University, have demonstrated a new type
of biodegradable electronics technology that could introduce new design
paradigms for medical implants, environmental monitors and consumer devices.

September 27, 2012

Perhaps inspired by Arizona’s blazing summers, Arizona State
University scientists have developed a new method that relies on heat to
improve the yield and lower the costs of high-energy biofuels production,
making renewable energy production more of an everyday reality.

ASU has been at the forefront of algal research for
renewable energy production. Since 2007, with support from federal, state and
industry funding, ASU has spearheaded several projects that utilize
photosynthetic microbes, called cyanobacteria, as a potential new source of
renewable, carbon-neutral fuels.

An international team of scientists, led from Karolinska
Institutet in Sweden, have discovered an entirely new approach to the treatment
of type II diabetes. The therapy involves the blockade of signalling by a
protein known as VEGF-B and this prevents fat from accumulating in the 'wrong'
places, such as in muscles and in the heart. As a result the cells within these
tissues are once again able to respond to insulin.

In experiments on mice and rats, the scientists have managed
to both prevent the development of type II diabetes and reverse the progression
of established disease. The study is published in the prestigious scientific
journal Nature, where it is described as a breakthrough in diabetes research.
The findings are the result of a joint effort by Karolinska Institutet, the
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Australian biopharmaceutical
company CSL Limited, amongst others.

Biocomposites challenge chipboard as furniture material.
Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a
kitchen furniture framework material from plastic polymers reinforced with
natural fibre. The new material reduces raw materials consumption by 25–30 per
cent and the carbon footprint of production by 35–45 per cent.

“The frames are lighter by nearly a third because they
contain more air,” says VTT’s Research Professor Ali Harlin. “Wastage during
production is also reduced. This is a generational shift that revolutionizes
both manufacturing techniques and design.”

According to Harlin, the framework for the kitchen of the
future will be compression moulded or extruded - familiar methods in the
plastics industry. The result is a component of exact dimensions, which does
not need to be cut or drilled after production. Even the screw-holes are there
when the component comes off the production line.

Scientists at The University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain
Research have succeeded in converting human skin cells directly into immature
brain cells, or neural precursor cells.
“This is an advance of huge significance to stem cell research on a
global level,” says Principal Investigator, Associate Professor Bronwen Connor.

An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at
the University of Kansas has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic
cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically
drop the costs of PV technology in the future.

“We actually broke the all-carbon PV efficiency record,”
said Shenqiang Ren, assistant professor of chemistry at KU, who spearheaded the
research with colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Carbon
nanotube-based solar cells, in the past, averaged less than 1 percent in
efficiency.

A see-through solar energy panel announced today by Sharp --
primarily designed for balcony railings and skyscraper windows -- offers an
uncommon alternative energy solution and sense of privacy in a single package.

The semi-transparent black solar panel launches in Japan on
October 1, and delivers a solar power conversion efficiency of about
6.8-percent with a maximum output of 95 watts. While the low conversion rate
seems lackluster comparative to the 10- to 20-percent efficiency standard these
days, few see-through solar panel options exist commercially. Overall panel
size stands at 4.5-feet wide by 3.2-feet tall and sports a super thin profile
of only 0.37 inches.

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster,
and as always Chernobyl, as anti-nuclear manifestos are quick to remind every
time nuclear powered energy is concerned, there seems to be a sort of stigma
applied to nuclear power. Countries are revising their policies – some for the better, being long overdue,
while other simply limit nuclear power rather precariously. Besides the actual
chain reaction, meltdown or other nuclear hazard event which might possibly
occur, there’s an other big issue with nuclear power and that’s its byproduct – nuclear waste. A novel
technique involving a particle accelerator which can create fast neutrons, in
the process lowering the half-life of waste from hundreds of thousands of years
to mere hundreds, might re-balance the odds back to nuclear, however. Nuclear
energy might be in for a come back.

About Me

Graduated from University of Marmara, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Design of Industrial Products and completed her dissertation titled "A Review on the Effects of the Trends & Periods on the Structural Constructions on the Products That are Associated With Consumer Electronics" in the same department for her Master’s Degree.

Lectured at University of Anatolia, Department of Industrial Products on part-time basis. Currently, she has been lecturing on part-time basis Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Industrial Products Design at University of Doğuş.

She was the Head of ETMK Istanbul Branch from February 2010 to June 2011.

She took part in many competitions and projects as a member of advisory board and jury. Currently, she is the acting executive officer coordinating various projects between the Industry and University at the company where she is employed.

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